I put culture in quotes because I don't want to demean real ones. No wait-- I rephrase. I don't want to give a positive connotation to the term used with humans.

Just so you know, 3 people were murdered in Newark recently. People died in Iraq today. More people died in Darfur. There's still a war in Afghanistan.

Lindsay Lohan is in rehab again. David Beckham is the number one sold jersey in America. Kids think McDonalds will always taste good.

Just some perspective. Only in a race so depraved, so backwards, so messed up will you have these headlines in the same newspaper. People still care about stupid celebrities messing up their lives more than the men and women in Iraq. Only HUMANS can care more about specks of dusts in each others eyes than the planks of wood in our own.

Only people.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/06/thai.hello.kitty.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/06/schoolyard.killings.ap/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/06/mcdonalds.preschoolers.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview